Screening - Talk

The Stealing C*nt$ and Toxic Sovereignty March 13, 2017 at 19:00

Informations

The Karrabing Film Collective (Gavin Bianamu, Rex Edmunds, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Benedict Scambary) presents The Stealing C*nt$ and Toxic Sovereignty at the Boghossian Foundation on the occasion of their participation in Contour Biennale 8.
The event is moderated by Natasha Ginwala.

Karrabing Film Collective began in 2008, in the shadow of the Australian state’s assault on Indigenous social worlds and lands. The collective is a grassroots arts and film group who use their aesthetic practices as a means of self-organization and social analysis. Most Karrabing are Indigenous and live in a rural community in the Northern Territory with low or no income. Their films and art works represent their lives, create bonds with their land, and intervene in global images of indigeneity. They develop local artistic languages and forms, while allowing audiences to understand new forms of collective indigenous agency. Their medium is a form of survivance – a refusal to relinquish their country and a means of investigating contemporary social conditions of inequality.

Contour Biennale 8 evolves in drawing relations between contemporary artistic practice and the course of social justice against the 400-year old juridical past of Mechelen’s Great Council—Europe’s first courthouse. Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium presents a multiplicity of voices that become heard as a plural consciousness, and at times as states of discord. The eighth biennale edition presents several newly commissioned film-based works and art works by over twenty artists spread across several historical venues.

BOGHOSSIAN FOUNDATION – VILLA EMPAIN
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B – 1050 Brussels